UN
disbands Iraq weapons inspection unit:
Four years after the US-led invasion of
Iraq failed to turn up weapons of mass destruction,
the UNSC has officially disbanded its weapons
inspections unit for Iraq

Police
Ammo In Short Supply: Police departments across
the state to cancel training sessions, borrow from
other departments, and even settle for less-powerful
rounds - ammunition is going to the military in
Iraq and Afghanistan

US
trying its old tricks again: When
Palestinians elected Hamas in free and fair
elections, Washington imposed severe punitive
sanctions on the new government, creating the
conditions that resulted in the dreadful clashes
in Gaza

Israeli
Planes, Tanks Hit Gaza - fired missiles and sent
tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians
in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took
control of the coastal strip

A
Clean Sweep: Marine General Pace Sacked - "If
you know how the war started, if you know anything about
[Ahmad] Chalabi or Cheney or anything like that, you're
gone. Peter Pace is being sacrificed to the White House
failure in Iraq."

"Signing
Statements" Explained -- Bush has quietly claimed the
authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took
office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute
passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation
of the Constitution

Putin
rallies Third World to go it alone: Attacks World Bank,
the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation
-- all American institutions - Putin's speech could be a turning
point in history - marking the end of multilateralism, a half-century
experiment wrecked by bull-headed Western politicians

Tastes
Like Burning: What’s a little depleted uranium in
the yard if it helps defeat them terrorists? Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory will conduct tests which will release 450
pounds of Depleted Uranium poisoning in the air over Tracy,
California!

Google's
personal data hoarding compromise: Is scaling back
how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated
from its Web users - Google has been accused of being
the Internet company most hostile to data protection

Honduran
Mom accused of prostituting her 2 daughters: Police
say she passed out cards that offered the teen girls for
sex - "I have never dealt with a case where biological
children were being prostituted out by their own mother"
- District Attorney Wood laments

Out
of Bounds: Sexual misconduct by educators in Texas -
Investigation reveals relationship of coaches and students
rife with abuse